Excerpt from The Index, 1941, Vol. 51: Illinois State Normal UniversityMr. Bayles was born in Rinard, Illinois, on December 1, 1870. He was brought up in the southern part of the state. Since he was an outdoor man and loved nature, he farmed in his younger days. Be tween periods on the farm, he was an attendant at the state hospitals at Jacksonville and Kankakee. He' farmed until he moved here twenty years ago.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.